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    Robert-François Damiens (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa damjɛ̃]; surname also recorded as Damier, [damje]; 9 January 1715 – 28 March 1757) was a...
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    François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (French: [damjɛ̃]; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films...
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  • Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, notably in reference to Robert-François Damiens who was condemned to make the amende honorable before the main...
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    years. By his own hand he executed nearly 3,000 people, including Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV. Sanson would later...
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    Ravaillac, attempted to assassinate Sigismund III of Poland in 1620. Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France in 1757....
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    leader, born in Arras Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), early botanist Robert-François Damiens (1715–1757), failed regicide, born in La Thieuloye Artesian well...
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    The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
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  • England, 1587 The Gunpowder Plot, England, 1605 The execution of Robert-François Damiens, France, 1757 The Douglas Cause, Great Britain, 1760s Ireland Shakespeare...
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    Empire. After the attempted assassination of King Louis XV by Robert-François Damiens, he was sent to Artois, to investigate and reconstruct the route...
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    me safe up; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Robert-François Damiens, a French man who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV, was sentenced...
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    its loyalty to the King by sentencing Damiens to the most severe possible penalty. On 28–29 March 1757 Damiens was executed on the Place de Grève in Paris...
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    dismemberment. Damiens' joints would not break; after some hours, representatives of the Parlement ordered the executioner and his aides to cut Damiens' joints...
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    Man (1791), in which Paine likens Foullon's ordeal to that of Robert-François Damiens, executed in 1757 following an attempted regicide, in order to...
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  • two forms of penalty: the violent and chaotic public torture of Robert-François Damiens, who was convicted of attempted regicide in the mid-18th century...
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    was the case with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610, Michał Piekarski in 1620, and Robert-François Damiens in 1757. Ravaillac's extended torture...
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    grève, including the gruesome deaths of the assassins François Ravaillac and Robert-François Damiens, as well as the bandit-rebel Guy Éder de La Fontenelle...
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  • Beheading by axe. It is said that it took three blows to behead him. Robert-François Damiens (1757) – Dismemberment by horses. Limbs could not be torn off and...
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  • Casanova's time in prison, and a time after his release where he sees Robert-François Damiens tortured, and tries to seduce Anne Roman-Coupier. This episode...
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  • (disambiguation) Robert-François Damiens (1715-1757), Frenchman who unsuccessfully attempted the assassination of Louis XV of France Saint Damien (disambiguation)...
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    Paris, where he arrived on the same day (5 January 1757) that Robert-François Damiens made an attempt on the life of Louis XV. (Casanova would later...
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    penalty was already declared illegal on 9 October 1981 when President François Mitterrand signed a law prohibiting the judicial system from using it and...
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  • Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On—" (serialized in 1940, published in the 1953 compilation Revolt in 2100) Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf (1944) Robert...
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    evidence and seized items, including case documents like that against Robert-François Damiens for his assassination attempt of King Louis XV of France. AE VI:...
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  • Orleans (from 1 September) Persian embassy to Louis XIV 9 January – Robert-François Damiens, domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of...
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    The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
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    (April 20) at the place de Grève in Paris, where the “regicide” Robert-François Damiens had been savagely executed in 1757, and the man who escaped to...
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    breech loading firearm is made for Philip V of Spain. January 9 – Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination...
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    death; and "The Execution of Damiens", a story about the execution of the 18th-century French criminal Robert-François Damiens that achieved some notoriety...
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    theatrical spectacles, such as the 1757 drawing and quartering of Robert-François Damiens for his attempted assassination of King Louis XV. A detailed account...
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    the age of 99 "O death, why art thou so long in coming?": 41  — Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, attempted assassin of Louis XV (28 March...
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